Tuesday morning we headed to the bus station, crossing our fingers, that we could catch a ride to Madrid. We got lucky and hopped on a 6 hour bus ride for only 20 euro! Unfortunately, due to our lack of planning ahead—none of us got to sit together and it was a long ride sitting next to strangers who didn’t speak our language. We also passed through a blizzard on the ride—it was safe to say we were dreading Madrid… Once we got to the city, we were cold and missing Seville—it seemed like the only appropriate thing to do was have a bucket of Cervezas! After a few drinks we headed to check out one of Madrid’s most famous areas, Plaza Mayor. It was actually quite dead because of the rain so we decided to grocery shop and cook our meals here since we spent way too much money on the rest of our trip. After dinner, we got ready and headed back out into the rain to explore the nightlife.
We woke up the next morning to the same weather, blah! We went to check out a cathedral, stopped for churros con chocolate and did some shopping. Walking home, we passed a threatre advertising for a cabaret show that night called The Hole. Since it was inside and not too expensive, we bought tickets--anything to get out of the rain! The Hole ended up being a really fun show, while it was in Spanish and I didn't understand anything, it seemed to be a mix of Rocky Horror and Moulan Rouge. There were fun costumes, dance and song numbers in English and some crazy acrobatics, I wish I had taken pictures! When we got back to our hostel, we had plans to go to the bar but ended up hanging out with an Australian couple who have been traveling the world together for 7 months listening to their adventurous tales until 3am. The group woke up the next morning and had a few hours to kill so we hung out in Plaza Del Sol, another famous Piazza in Madrid and people watched until it was time to catch our flight. While I fell in love with Seville and Barcelona, it was safe to say that everyone was ready to get back to home sweet Rome!
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